The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-19
SCORES SLAIN BY THE sun
THE MERCURY GOES TO 1oo IN raE
SHADE AT LYNCHBURG.

Fatal Fever Brought on by the Heat
at Jefferson-Athens Left Without
Ice-A Storm Cools the Atmosphere
at Baltimore.
CHICAGO. July 1S-The sickle of the sun
cut wide swath in the population of Chi
cago last week, and yesterday it had its
victims in every grade of society and left
them in every part of the city. The well
come breeze that sprang up last evening
saved many lives, but many a sufferer was
past all help, and during the night and
morning many were added to the death
list. Twenty deaths from sunstroke were
reported yesterday and as many more this
morning, and 263 babies less than a year old
fell sick and died from the heat. There
were about 1876 deaths altogether reported
I'D to noon, and only half the day over.
The weather was muggy and the air heavy
this morning but the breeze was still blow
ing. The thermometer in various parts of
the city ranged between S5' and 90.
COOLED BY A STORM.
BALTIMORE, July 1S.-A sewers tbipder
storm, accompanied by rain and nail, visited
this city and vicinity late this afternoon
Within few minutes the streets were
flooded in every direction, and the hail was
so severe that pedestrians sought the nearest
shelter. The day had been oppressively
warm and the hail had the effect to cool the
temperature. During the storm signs and
awnings were blown awaT, but no personal
damage was done.
At the Emory Grove camp meeting
ground, about twenty miles west of the
city, where about fifty families spend the
summer in tents, Miss Ida Andrews, of Bal
l.. IL r
of large tree, which struck her square in
the head. Her sister Jennie was also badly
injured. In the more exposed portions of
the State the damage to property is high.
The weather to-day was the hottest ever
known in this city. The thermometer at 3
o'clock registered 1922 in the shade. About
twenty five cases of prostration were re-
ported up to midnight, six of them proving
fatal.
RICHMOND'S ROAST.
RICHMOND, July 1S-The heated term
continued throughout yesterday and to-day
with increased vigor, the temperature rising
several degrees above previous reports tele-
graphed. Telephone inquiries at 3 o'clock
this afternoon showed that in all quarters of
the city the mercury ranged at that hour
between 1907 and 1867 in the shade. The
effect of this prolonged term of heat on man
and beast has been very severe.
lnere EdS DSen quite a NUMBER
Of prostrations from heat in the past two
days, six resulting fatally Several indus
tries employing large numbers of operatives
suspended work to-day, owing to the ex-
treme heat. The workmen on the new City
Hall stopped work at noon. A number of
horses, a majority of them belonging to the
street car lines, have succumbed.
At Z o'clock this evening a refreshing
breeze sprang up, and soon after O'Clock
n haax eI,< ae c,ll
MED by thunder and lightning, causing a
fall of about 90 in the temperature.
A DOZEN DEAD
RICHMOND, VA, July 1S, II p M-Later
reports show that the deaths from the heat
IN the past two days number twelve, evenly
divided between blacks and whites.
PERIsHING AT PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 1S.-There was
out little dinlinution in the temperature to-
day. Up to noon six deaths had occurred
from the heat. There were eighteen deaths
yesterday and five Saturday.
A glance at the records of the signal office
IN this city show that there has been but one
day during the past week when the ther-
mometer registered as low rs So, that
being Friday last On Saturday it
reached the maximum, 1907. on Sunday
g6, and to-day 94'. These figures
however, are not regarded as fairly indi-
Catlng the actual heat on the street, where
tne thermometer registered from g to s.
higher. Thirty-one deaths from the heat
We're reported to-day, and seventeen other
persons We're overcome by the heat, but
most OF them will recover.
ATHENS WANTS ICE.
ATHENS, GA, July 1S.-The Thermometer
this morning at 12 o'clock registered 105' in
the shade. The Athens ice works have
DfClypn Il -,
gAe tapls. The people are loud in their
denunciations of the ice works as they have
made contracts to supply spring and sum
lHer resorts and have gone beyond their
capacity. A prominent citizen this morn
ing went around with list to establish new
ICE works and in half an hour 81, 900 had
oeen subscribed towards building a $4,000
factory.
A special from jefferson, jackson county,
tonight states that the extreme heat for the
past Two days has caused fever of an alarm
iHg 5g klnd and that four persons have already
uled OF the fatal complaint.
102' AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. July 1S.-The thermometer
today beat all previous records for the
month OF July since the establishment of
we signal service, by climbing up to the
maximum of 1922 and the only day in any
month since the Weather Bureaus estab- |
uShihent in which a higher temperature |
than to-day was recorded was Sept. T. 1881, |
Mneh the mercury reached 104'. There |
were nfteen or more cases of prostration, |
una una llve OF these are known to have resulted |
Iataily. A shower of rain in the afternoon |
Fooied the air considerably. One noticeable |
feature OF the heat for the past few days |
inl nas been the hot, parching winds that swept |
ny IKE isiroccos through the city in the middle
Of the day.
PlTTsBURG's WORST DEATH LIST.
=, PIrTsBURG, July 1S.-A good breeze and
snght drop in the temperature made life
more endurable to-day, although the death |
iate is the largest known in years. The |
mercury at Z O'Clock this morning registered |
% and at l o'clock this after
noon was 04' in the shade At |
Tne Ine. same hour yesterday it registered |
VO Seventeen sudden deaths from the |
ueat were reported to the Coroner up TO
noon today, and nearly twice as many |
gersons were prostrated who will recover |
yearly all the factories and mills temporari- |
the day.
FATALITIES AT AUGUSTA.
AUGUSTA, Ga, July 1S.-The thermom-
eser e still plays above a hundred The ex
tteeSSiVe heat played havoc with horses,
ttnough only two deaths of human beings |
nave been verified, though a dozen
nave been reported The deaths reported
ore ~ those of George Williams and William
Al. 1t